The Irish standard., 1887-04-09
FROM SCIENTIFIC SOURCES.

DRUM1NE is the name of a new anesthetic
used in South America.
The number of doctors that have been
graduated from various colleges during
the last ten years is according to the Bos-
ton Budget, nearly forty thousand.
WHITE and black are both, after careful
analysis, declared to be colors, and accord
ing to scientific opinion should have a
proper place upon the chromatic scale.
We are informed through journal of
science that "poivrette,' a powder made
from the stone of the olive, is being COM
monty used in the adulteration of pepper.
The danger of infection from the use of
the telephone mouthpieces should be borne
in mind. A medical authority recommends
the disinfection of these, of necessity COM
monty used, conveniences.
An astronomic authority claims that the
chances of collision between the earth
and another comet are one thousand times
smaller than the bringing down of bird
by firing rife at rand ON in the air:
The strength and aexibility of the paper
made in China is often attributed to silk
supposed to be used in its manufacture.
We have it, on eminent scientific authori-
ty, that its composition is wholly vege-
table.
AN English scientist says on the subject
Of left-handiness that the preferential use
of the left hand is not necessarily to be
ascribed entirely to early training, but tt
the superior development of the right
lobe of the brain, which, as is commonly
known, is connected with the left side OF
the body.
EP1oRN1s is the name given . bird of
gigantic proportions supposedly existing
in the island of Madagascar. The only
trace, however, of this huge bird that can
be found is it's egg, specimen of which
has capacity of seventy-seven quarts.
A MAMMOTH Corliss engine is that of
cotton millin Bombay. The cylinders have
stroke of six feet; the dy-wheel is thirty
feet in diameter and weighs one hundred
and ten tons. The crank shaft is of CON-
pressed steel and twenty-five inches in
diameter, and the capacity is twenty-five
hundred horsepower. sJea
uSPEc1MENs of a race of people, said by
scientists to have existed two thousand
years ago, were recently found by cowboy
in cave in the Bad Lands of Dakota.
They were five in number. and thought to
have been father, mother and children; it
is supposed that the family, at some re-
IQOU6 Jay, W0E0 uApI4SOn0u Ny q 4aAuSAAO0.
A MOST extraordinary invention is the
Maxim machine-gun. As described in a
journal of science it weighs, with all its
appurtenances, but one hundred and fifty.
six pounds, and discharges automatically
from six to seven hundred shots permin-
ute The rapidity Of it's fire is such that at
q thousand yards range twenty bullets will
strike the target before the guns cease
firing.
NAzoaRAPHY is the new term expressive
of the reading of character by the nose
This ography teaches US that the long,
straight nose is Indicative Of merit, power
and genius; the Roman nose, q propensity
for adventures; nose with wide, open
nostrils, a sensual nature; cleft nose, be-
nevolence; curved, feshy nose, cruelty;
q curved, thin nose, brilliant mind and
ironical disposition and an indication Of po-
etc genius; An upward tendency in the
organ denotes coarseness or playfulness.
and q lack Of color, egotism, envy or heart
lessness. A strongly colored nose Of uni
form shade marks quick, passionate and
sanguinarX person. ss 81
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